CLASS 2 week 1

I'm late updating this as usual! - am currently in week 3 of class 2 but here is a recap of week 1!

Class 2 is called Psychology of Body Mechanics and focuses on body movements in more detail. My Mentor for this class is Jay Davis who worked as an artist/animator at Disney for over 12 years on 2D and 3D productions, after that he moved to London and was a supervising animator on 'Hellboy II' - supervising the animation of the 'Golden Army' sequence. He is currently a full time painter - you can see his work here - www.jayndavis.com

In the first week I was introduced to my class in our first Q&A, I was happy to see some familiar faces from my previous class and also a couple of people from the Maya springboard workshop (Which i can't believe was over 6 months ago!) as well as a few new ones.

Our assignments this week were to choose a shot from a pick list of 10 ideas that we will be working on for the next 4 weeks, then to upload some video reference and planning for it. We also had to upload our progress reel from class one to give our mentor an idea of what stage we were currently at.

Here is my planning from week 1! - I chose to do a shot of a character walking down some stairs:

Week 12 - Final week of class 1!

Final week,

I cant believe this came around so quick, Had a fantastic class one, my mentor Shaun Freeman was awesome, my classmates were awesome and Im pretty chuffed with how far i've come so far!

Here is my progress reel for class 1, only a few days left now before class 2 starts!!

Week 11

This week we needed to finalise and polish our personality walk, and also add a 3/4 perspective.

We also needed to sketch and pose a character showing 'balance'

Week 10 - Walks with character

Things are getting tricky! :)

This week we had to block out a personality walk of our choice, after taking some reference video I decided to try and do a 'swagger' style walk... here is my blocking :)

We also needed to pose a character showing 'exhaustion'

Week 9

This week our lecture was on exaggeration and weight,  our assignment was to finalise our 'vanilla' walk and also create a 3D pose expressing'/concern'

Final 'vanilla' walk:

Week 8 - Intro to walks

This week our assignment was to block out a 'vanilla' walk cycle (put in the key frames) in stepped mode and also to sketch poses and create a 3D pose representing 'physical strength'

Week 7 - bouncy squirrel!

Bit late updating this! - here's a quick catch-up, This week we had to do a series of bounces of our choice using the 'tailor' model to learn how to do the overlapping motion on the tail:

Here is my first attempt:

and here is my revision after my e-critique!